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Read MoreEducation Key to Awareness
San Francisco is an impressive city for their wide array of startups. They also have an equally impressive number of educational initiatives being carried out to link climate change back to the local community. Climate change is a complex issue which presents a challenge in how it should be communicated so that people understand what it will mean on a day-to-day basis. The importance of being able to...
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Read MorePachauri on Doha, IPCC Leaks and His Optimism
The international climate community suffered a rocky finish to 2012 with slow progress, lacklustre ambition and a leak of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) authoritative Fifth Assessment Report (AR5). At the centre of this is Dr Rajendra K. Pachauri, chair of the IPCC and director general of The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI). The Verb recently spoke with Dr Pachauri...
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Read MoreHits of 2012
It was a big year for The Verb. A name change (no longer Speak Your Mind); an award (WWF inaugural Eco-Blog of the Year); a growing team of reporters; big news across the globe on climate change, the environment and social movements. From Rio to Doha to Nairobi or Sydney, The Verb covered it all. So what have we learned? Our most popular articles tell us you have quite diverse interests. You also have a...
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Read MoreDoha, a Process Win that Won’t Solve Climate Change
Developing countries fear that the latest climate change agreement could be just another empty promise. Climate change negotiations have concluded in Doha, Qatar as the ‘Doha Gateway’ was passed within minutes and with much confusion. The outcome represents a historic shift with the introduction of “loss and damage” into the agreement, but will do little to actually limit warming to 1.5...
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Read MoreThe Morning After Stock-Take
It’s Saturday, noon, in Doha, Qatar on what is hopefully the last day of the UN climate change negotiations that were meant to finish on Friday. The only UNFCCC announcement reads “informal plenary – time to be announcement” has not helped with the confusion evident in the faces of party delegates, civil society observers and press alike. As we await the final stock-take of...
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ADP Wrap Up
Friday afternoon rolled round and the AWG-LCA finally closed and submitted a draft text to COP for review. Despite repeated calls from the President to conclude work on Friday; by midnight the Ad-Hoc Working Group for Enhanced Action (ADP) had only just submitted its draft text with outstanding matters to ministerial review. With stock take scheduled for 1am, Saturday morning the President’s call for...
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Read MoreSecret Meetings to Help Finance?
The United States is blocking progress on finance discussions at the UN climate change conference in Doha, Qatar by being unable to announce future financial commitments. Blame for inaction is being placed upon President Barak Obama and US negotiators present at COP18, however the real culprit is the US Congress. In a Climate Action Network International press conference Steve Herz, of the Sierra Club,...
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Read MoreREDD+ Focuses on Landscape, Not Just Forests
Use of REDD+ scheme challenged as experts call for new approach to managing land and tackling climate change in place of accepted REDD+ schemes. Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, REDD+ for short is an interim platform offering financial incentives for developing countries to reduce emissions from forested land. Scientists have pointed to the rising dangers of forest...
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Australia and China Moving Forward on Energy
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